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Radio 3,10 Jan 2012,20 mins

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

Discovering Music

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Stephen Johnson explores a work which was ten years in the gestation, but worth waiting for - Elgar's Symphony No.1, which was an immediate and phenomenal success at its first performance in 1908.

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